Research Tips

Information Literacy and Research Tutorials

Database Tutorials

This link will take you to a menu of tutorials that provide basic instruction on searching various databases.

Research Tips:

The following tips may be helpful during your research process:

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• Tour of the KC library
• Designing a Search Strategy
• Requesting Materials
• Is This Article Peer Reviewed?

Types of Periodicals

Types of Periodicals

Evaluating Information

Lateral Reading to Evaluate Websites

Evaluating Resources

Evaluating Web Pages: Questions to Consider

Medline Plus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing: How to Evaluate Consumer Health Information on the Web

Evaluating Web-based Health Resources

Google Search Tips

Google Search Cheatsheet

Advanced Search Operators Cheat Sheet

Citing Sources

Citation Game, A Tutorial to Practice Citing in APA and MLA Formats

Citing Resources Using APA Style

Plagiarism

Avoiding Plagiarism

Boolean Searching

Boolean Basics

Advanced Boolean Searching